Object Details
- Summary
- This Blue Angels lapel pin is a souvenir for Magellan T. Bear's 1996 flight with the Navy's precision flight team. The teddy bear flew on a variety of aircraft as an ambitious elementary school education project organized to stimulate interest in geography, science, and social studies.
- Magellan T. Bear became the first official teddy bear in space, flying as the "education specialist" aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-63 mission in February 1995. Students and faculty of Elk Creek Elementary School in Pine, Colorado, worked with NASA and Spacehab to have the teddy bear certified for spaceflight. The school also arranged for the bear to fly around the world, visit the South Pole, fly on United Airlines' first Boeing 777 flight, and attend U.S. Space Camp.
- Magellan T. Bear was presented to the National Air and Space Museum in May 1998 by librarian Penny Wiedeke and principal Jerry Williams.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Penny Wiedeke and Jerry Williams.
- Inventory Number
- A19980135010
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MEMORABILIA-Miscellaneous
- Materials
- Non-Magnetic Metal
- Copper Alloy
- Gold Plating
- Enamel
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 5.1 × 4.3 × 1.1cm (2 × 1 11/16 × 7/16 in.)
- Storage: 17.8 × 10.5 × 1.9cm (7 × 4 1/8 × 3/4 in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19980135010
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9c8c311ff-bd37-4993-83d7-683c2fc05b01
